Artist
Kano Tan’yū
(狩野探幽; 1602–1674)
Catalogue information
Edo period, 1639–62
Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
99 x 38.9 cm (39 x 15 3/8 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Ex Coll.: Matsukata Iwao
Literature
Iizuka Beiu 1932a, pl. 58
; 1932a
[Editor]. Kano ha (Kano School). 3 vols. Nihonga taisei (Survey of Japanese painting), 5–7. Tokyo: Tōhō Shoin.
Takeda Tsuneo 1978b, no. 21
; 1978b
Kano Tan’yū. Nihon bijutsu kaiga zenshū (Survey of Japanese painting), 15. Tokyo: Shūeisha.
Kōno Motoaki 1982b, fig. 72
; Burke 1985, fig. 7
; 1985
“Twisted Pine Branches: Recollections of a Collector.” Apollo 121, no. 276 (February): 77–83.
Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 33
; 1985a
Nihon bijutsu meihin ten: New York Burke Collection / A Selection of Japanese Art from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Tokyo: Chunichi Shimbun.
Japan Society Gallery 1989, no. 11
; 1989
The Collector’s Eye: Japanese Art Lent by Friends of the Japan Society Gallery. Exh. cat. New York: Japan Society.
Avitabile 1990, no. 75
; 1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.
Nakahashi 1990, fig. 1
; 1990
“‘The Bodhisattva Jizō Playing a Flute,’ by Kano Tan’yū: A New Interpretation.” Orientations 21, no. 12 (December): 36–45.
Kobayashi Tadashi and Kano Hiroyuki 1992, no. 9
; 1992
[Editors]. Kano ha to fūzokuga: Edo no kaiga 1 (The Kano School and genre painting: Painting of the Edo period, 1). Nihon bijutsu zenshū (Survey of Japanese art), 17. Tokyo: Kōdansha.
Kōno Motoaki 1993, no. 24
; 1993
[Editor]. Kano ha to Rinpa (The Kano School and Rinpa). Nihon suiboku meihin zufu (Survey of masterpieces of Japanese ink painting), 4. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha.
Yasumura Toshinobu 1998, no. 24
; 1998
Kano Tan’yū. Shinchō Nihon bijutsu bunko (Shinchōsha series on Japanese art), 7. Tokyo: Shinchōsha.
Kobayashi Tadashi 2000, p. 29
; 2000
Saikō: Kindai Nihon no bijutsu—Mittsu no kagami ni terashite, bijutsu no Meiji Ishin (A reconsideration: Japanese art of modern times—Reflections in three mirrors; arts of the Meiji Restoration). Exh. cat. Tokyo: National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
Murase 2000, no. 108
; 2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Nakahashi 2002, pp. 37–42, no. 1286
; 2002
“Kano Tan’yū hitsu Fuefuki Jizō-zu” (“The Bodhisattva Jizō Playing a Flute,” by Kano Tan’yū). Kokka (December), no. 1286: 37–42.
Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 66
; 2005
Nyūyōku Bāku korekushon-ten: Nihon no bi sanzennen no kagayaki / Enduring Legacy of Japanese Art: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu; Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; and Miho Museum, Shigaraki, Shiga Prefecture. [Tokyo]: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha.
Nishigōri Ryōsuke 2006.
2006
“Kano Tan’yū hitsu Fuefuki: Jizō zō no zuzō” (Iconography of Jizō Playing a Flute). Kokka (March), no. 1325: 29–36.
See also
- Japanese paintings » Kano School of the Edo Period
- Hanging scrolls
- Works of the Edo period
- Works by Kano Tan’yū
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 147 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Signature
Painted by Tan’yū hōgen
Seal
Morinobu